Maybe not quite a news article, but I recently got my new motorola razr and instantly knew what I wanted to do: nerdy themes. But I couldn't pick just one aspect of nerdom to apply to my phone! So, I made a few different themes and thought I'd share them with the pwned.com community to use as well. I have no idea how to package themes for download, so below are the images I made/resized for wallpaper and screensaver usage and the links to free mp3 shorts that can be used as ringtones. Enjoy! Read More...

This is my Interveiw I sent to Joel "FPS Doug" Gardiner, who played a main role in the Pure Pwange Series. 1. How did you get involved with Pure Pwnage? I’ve been long time friends with the producers Jarett Cale and Geoff Lapaire for many years. We had worked together on some small filming projects before here in Calgary. They were both out in Toronto by the time the series started taking off and wanted to start bringing in more characters. They knew I had the perfect look and ability to pull off a crazy frag fanatic fps player, so the next time Jarett was back in Calgary, me and him filmed the very first fpsdoug segment. Read More...

GamePolitics has just released some breaking news about game hating attorney Jack Thompson. Following the Florida Supreme Court’s complaint about Jack’s frivolous and time wasting suit filings, it has just come to pass that the silver-haired enemy of videogames got smacked down with sanctions effectively hampering his ability to waste court time. Read More...

Pre-Register with Squenix Members This is for all you die hard Squenix fans. Looks like they are opening up their Member program in the States next week. On the 24th to be exact. As of right now, they are letting those in the know to register their names and accounts to this service. Kind of to let those fans get first crack at their Usernames and such before it goes fully live. Already snagged up Hades on there if anyone was thinking of sniping it from me. :) There is no full word on what exactly will be coming with the Membership program. Read More...

Rock Band Multiple Updates Ok, so instead of doing a bunch of different write-ups on this topic, I figured I would just lump them all together into one. 3 is a charm here. First, Rock Band just announced that they have sold over 6 million DLC songs since the games release. That of course is just insane to think about. At least to me. I probably wouldn't have believed it if it wasn't for the press release that they sent out about it all. Read More...

PS3 Firmware v2.20 To Bring BD-LIVE and More Not too big of news, but I know some people will care about it. At least those who either own or are a fan boy of the system. But it has just been discussed about what the next FW update will include. No In-Game XMB, but the BD information is pretty nice to know. Especially since the 2.0 version of the format now has disks that hold up to 100GB of data. Read More...

    This work by Marques Cannon is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License   I wanted to point out that I KILL PXLS has released his latest work and if you like music and video games you can't go wrong with this. It is fresh and hip and if I tell you to like it you will enjoy it. Margues put some awesome effort into this and I asked him to make a song for PWNED.com. Read More...

This is awesome and huge news! Penny Arcade has announced the Penny Arcade Scholarship for the 2008-2009 academic year. The Penny Arcade Scholarship awards one qualifiying student $10,000 to help pursue a career in the game industry. The application process requires a two-page essay describing the applicant's studies and intent to benefit the game industry. You'll also need two letters of recommendation and a copy of your transcripts. The other requirements include being a full-time student at an accredited college or university and must have a GPA with a 3. Read More...

EXPLOSIVE WEB TRAFFIC: PWNED.COM received over 2 Million unique page impressions in February, which is a 400,000+ increase from January’s 1.6 Million unique page impressions. PWNED.COM traffic is on track in March to surpass 2.5 Million unique page impressions. IN THE NEWS: PWNED.COM was recently mentioned on Yahoo Business in a press release from The Electronic Consumers Association (ECA) in regards to their expanding growth and support. Link: http://biz.yahoo. Read More...

World Cyber Games has announced their official tournament games for 2008. Halo 3, Guitar Hero III, Starcraft: Brood War, Warcraft III:The Frozen Throne will all be a part of WCG. Also for the first time, Asphalt 3: Street rules, a mobile game will be part of the tournament. "It is with great honor that the WCG announces the most powerful, broad-reaching and distinguished lineup of tournament games in the history of eSports," said Hyoung-Seok Kim, president and CEO, International Cyber Marketing, organizers of the WCG. You can now register at www.worldcybergames. Read More...

Boston's mayor, Thomah Menino is now backing a Massachusetts Bill sponsored by Rep. Linda Dorcena Forry according to GamePolitics.com. The Massachusetts legislature will be talking about the bill on Tuesday. The bill was penned with the help of Jack Thompson, of course, but prior "games as porn" bills have failed in Lousiana and Utah. Entertainment Software AssociationGames-for-Grownups spokesman Dan Hewitt told the Boston Herald, “Every time states have tried to restrict access to First Amendment-protected material, it has been considered unconstitutional.” You can contact the mayor of Boston here: http://www. Read More...

While this is old news we are happy to say PWNED.com has made it on Yahoo Biz and we are all happy. While there is no specific paragraph about who and what we are just the fact we are mention is icing on the cake. “The depth and breadth of new coalition partners and sponsors is truly impressive,” said Hal Halpin, the association’s president. “In just over a year we have solidified an amazing list of well-established corporations, non-profits and entities that are not just seeing the potential of the ECA, but doing everything in their power to support us during our formative stages. That says quite a lot about them actually, but it also speaks volumes about game consumers and the faith that these organizations have in us collectively. Read More...

  little overview of Abel’s specials moves, how they work, and a few of the horrible things you can do with them to the people you love.  If you are too good for youtube, a more easily ipodified link can be found here. Read More...

It's sad, but true, the Cyberathlete Professional League has announced that they will be closing the league. CPL has been around and popular since 1997, but the showey World Series of VideoGames and CGS have taken a toll on CPL. All events that were scheduled for 2008 have been cancelled. "Effective immediately, the Cyberathlete Professional League (CPL) will cease operations. Therefore, all CPL events currently scheduled for 2008 are hereby canceled," said a post on the CPL website. "The current fragmentation of the sport, a crowded field of competing leagues, and the current economic climate have prompted the CPL to suspend its pro-tournament operations. Read More...

Nintendo Wins February Console War, but PS2 makes a jump!   The Nintendo DS and Wii took the top two spots on NPD Console sales for the month of February, but that is not the biggest news. Playstation 2 in the month of February sold almost 100 thousand more than the Playstation 3. Total hardware sales this month were $480 million, compared to last year which was $402 million. Read More...